No, I'm sure you're not, and it's Joe Boyd, btw.  You're thinking of Joe
Meek who produced Telstar?  Not very folksy . . .


On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:00:11 -0500 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> I'll come out of the closet and admit, I'm not a fan of REM.  I 
> liked their first record-- especially "Catapault," which ended up on 
> many a mix tape for friends-- and the folksy one produced by Joe 
> Meeks (with "Driver Eight.")  And I bought them all faithfully as 
> they came out, until I started to realize they sounded the same to 
> me, and I wasn't really listening to them after a week.  Most of my 
> REM is on vinyl, and having a baby in a NYC apartment drove us over 
> the edge, and now my vinyl is in storage.  But REM, I don't seem to 
> miss.
> 
> Am I the only one here who is luke warm to them?
>